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MAGAZINE GUN.

No. 354,059. Patented Dec; 7, 1886.

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MAGAZINE GUN.

Patented Dec. 7, .1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

LEWIS L. HEPBURN, OF ILION, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE MARLIN FIRE ARMSCOMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

MAGAZINE-GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354.059, dated December7, 1886.

Application filed July 29, 1886. Serial No. 209,478. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEwIs L. HEPBURN, of Ilion, in the county ofHerkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Magazine-Guns, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to magazine guns; and the invention consists incertain improvements on the gun for which Patent No. 298,377

was granted to me May 13, 1884, which said improvements are hereinafterspecifically described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the breech portion of the gun with theside removed to :5 show the mechanism. Fig. 2 is a similar view,

looking from the opposite side, both these views showing the breechclosed. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1, showing the breech open andthe carrier down. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the carrier andlocking-brace detached. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 00 xof Fig. 8. Fig. 6 is an enlarged side view of the spring which assiststo operate the carrier and hold it in position. Fig. 7 is a bottom planview of the breech-block, showing the device for retracting thefiringpin, and Fig. 8 is a perspective View of a portion 5 of thecarrier.

The general plan of this gun is the same as 3 that shown in my PatentNo. 298,377, to which reference is made, and differs therefrom only incertain improvements or details, which I will now proceed to describe.

The sliding breech-block B and the arm L of the operating-lever L arethe same as in the former patent,except that the arm L, instead of beingoffset so as to pass up at one side of the carrier E, is offset butslightly, and works or moves in a slot, 6. Fig. 4. which is cut verjustbelow its pivot f with an inclined face, which terminates at its lowerextremity with a V-shaped point, t, which bears on the free end of aspring, r, which is in like manner provided with a A shaped projection,12, (shown more clearly in Fig. 6,) the relative position of thesepoints it and 1) being as shown in Fig. 6. so that as the carrier ismoved up and down the point it will pass alternately from one to theother side of the point 1), the pressure of the spring, operating onthese iu- 6o clined surfaces, aiding to throw the carrier up or downafterit has passed the central point, and also serving to hold it ineither position, up or down, at the end of its movement. The extremelower rear portion of the carrier is further changed by forming thereonanother and longer inclined face, 0, against which a shoulder, Z, on thepart 2 of lever L strikes, to hold the carrier up when the lever isclosed, as shown in Fig. 1. On the opposite side of this part 0 there isformed a laterally-projecting lip, I, essentially the same as before,and as indicated by the dotted line in Fig. l, the only difference beingthat in this case the lip I is formed entirely on the side and does notproject below the lower edge of the carrier at that point, this portionof the carrier having been widened vertically to form the incline orface 0, as above described. thus extending it down flush with the end oflip I, the latter being more fully shown in Fig. 8.

Instead of the sliding Spring-catch m, formerly used to draw down thecarrier, I now use a flat spring, at, which is set in a recess made inthe side of the partp of lever L, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, the fixedend of this spring m extending past the pivot-hole of the lever, andbeing broadened and provided with a hole corresponding with that throughthe lever, as shown in Fig. 5, so that the pivotpin will pass throughboth, the lever being of such a thickness as to just till the slot inthe guard-strap in which it is pivoted, thus holding the spring insecurely in place, with its outer surface flush with the surface of thele- 5 ver when in its normal position, as repre' sented in Fig. 5, therecess in the side of the leverbeing deepened toward its extremity, as

shown in Fig. 5, so as to give room for the free end of the spring toyield.

At its free end the spring in is provided with a solid enlargement, theouter face having an incline, n, formedthereon, as shown in Fig. 5. sothat when the lever is closed this inclined face will impinge againstthe outer face 'of the lip I on the carrier, and, riding over it, willdepress the spring until the spring has passed by the lip, when it willimmediately spring but, thereby causing its back edge to engage with thelip I, ready to draw down the carrier at the first part of the downwardor forward movement of the lever in opening the breech. The location andmovement of these parts in this, as in my former gun, are such that bythe time the carrier has reached or nearly reached the limit of itsdownward move-. ment the end of the spring m will be drawn off of thefront endof the lip I, thus leaving the lever free to continue itsmovement far enough to throw back the breech-block, and- I also throw upthe carrier again. In the former case the carrier was raised by a stud,O, on the side of the lever striking against a latch, G, which waspivoted to the carrier. Instead of these devices, I now form a dependingshoulder, a, on the under side of the carrier E, about midway of itslength, and 011 the lever above its pivot I form a correspondingprojection or shoulder, 12, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, both having theirfaces inclined, and being so arranged in relation to each other that theshoulder 1) will strike against the inclined face of shoulder a justbefore the lever has completed its downward movement, and thereby raisethe carrier, the position of the parts being shown in Fig. 3 asjustcoming in contact before the carrier has commenced its upward movement.

The locking-brace O, as before, has a lip, h, on one side only, however,which engages under the carrier, so that the brace cannot be raiseduntil the carrier has been thrown up, and will be drawn down with thecarrier. The brace is locked up by the upper shoulder, 0, of theprojection 19 of lever L, which moves forward under the brace, therebyraising it against theshoulder c of the hammer and force the latter backto half-cock. This also prevents the hammer from swinging forward farenough to hit the firing-pin until the brace is thrown up and the breechsecurely locked. By thus relieving the breech-bolt of part of the laborof throwing back the hammer the manipulation of the gun is rendered moreeasy, and at the same time it is rendered se cure against prematuredischarge without the use of the compound trigger and safety deviceshown in my former patent.

As shown in Fig. 1, the face side of the projection p oflever L-is cutaway for a short distance below the spring in to form a shoulder, Z,which, when the gun is closed ready for firing, rests against theinclined face 0 on the carrier, and thereby looks it up and holds itsecurely in position.

Instead of the elbowlever which I formerly 'used to retractthe-firing-pin as the breech was opened, I now use apivoted latch, 31,as shownin Fig. 7, it being pivoted at its rear end to the under side ofthe rear extension of the breech-block B,and has atits front end alaterally-projecting incline, e, which bears against a shoulder on thefiring-pin P when the latch is pushed inward, thereby fore-- cline tooperate on the shoulder of the firingpin and force it backward. A recessis formed in the wall or cheek-piece opposite the point occupied by thecurved or projecting edge to when the breech is closed-in this the sameas in my former gunso as to permit the latch y to swing outward when thefiring-pin is hit, the improvement in this particular consisting in thesubstitution of the latch g with its incline, for the elbow-leverformerly used.

By these several improvements the gun is simplified in its construction,and is rendered more easy and smooth in its manipulation.

Having thus described myinvention,what I claim is 1. The combination, ina magazine-gun, of the slotted carrier E, pivoted to the breech frame inrear of and above the pivot of the hand-lever L, and provided with theinclined shoulder a in advance of its pivot, with the lever L, havingthe shoulder b formed on it in front of its pivot, the said parts beingarranged to operate substantially as described.

- 2. The pivoted carrier E, provided with the laterally-projecting lipI, in combination with the lever L, having the spring on set in a recessin the side of the lever, saidparts being constructed and arranged tooperate substantially as shown and described.

3. In combination with the reciprocating breech block B, having thefiring pin P, mounted loosely therein, thelatch 1, pivoted to thebreech-block, as shown, and provided at its free end with the inclinedprojection 6', arranged to engage with a shoulder on the firingpin, andthe curved projection 10. which engages with the frame as thebreech-block is drawn back for the purpose of retracting the firing-pin,as set forth.

4. The'swinging locking-brace 0, provided with the projection 17, incombination with the hammer H, provided with the shoulder '0, saidranged to pass through said slots and engage parts being constructed andarranged to opat its upper end witha recess, h, in the breech- IO eratesubstantially as and for the purpose set block B, substantially as shownand described. forth.

5 5. The combination, in a magazine-gun, of LEWIS HEPBURN' the pivotedswinging carrier E and brace O, \Vitnesses: both provided with alongitudinal slot, and THOS. RICHARDSON,

the lever L, provided with an arm, L, ar- A. D. RICHARDSON.

